attackfish

The reason it tends to be problematic, like a lot of other problematic narratives is that it's overused. If one person wrote a woman getting in trouble and getting rescued, no big deal, but because it's such a common narrative, and the reverse is rare, it becomes a cultural statement about women. It's the same here. If almost all of them didn't have the same narrative, and if we didn't already have the narratives we do about older men and younger women, and also predatory male sexuality (that's another thing, the genre tends to eroticize predatory masculinity, and also, conversely, male self control) it wouldn't be an issue.

My question is why we never have a human couple both being thrown into the magical world together, where you could have introductory characters, or a woman being drawn into the magical world through a different way from a man, and then meeting a man later, or a magical man needing to be rescued, or...

There are Paranormal Romances that I just love love love, but I have to hunt for them.